How do you not realize you're going 109 mph?

These newer cars do handle a lot better than ones from 20 years ago. I have an '04 Monte Carlo that can smoothly hit 80-85 and feel like 60. That said, going 109 is a whole different ballgame.

 

Top of a hill on an Interstate in Montana. Nobody around. Temptation to floor it was too great.

Also easy to hit those speeds between Barstow and Kingman on I-40.

And Justin Bieber weeps [/crossthread].

 

25 inches would be a serious butt-hurt.

 

Why not just set it at the speed limit?

 

120 in my '98 Cobra at night on one of the straight, flat blacktops in rural Illinois outside Champaign. With the top down.

120 in my '98 6-cylinder Mustang going west down Mineola hill on I-70 in Missouri.

120 makes 70 feel like you're going backward.

 

Fuck you and your selfishness.

 

Ditto, but on another interstate in another state. Late at night, not a soul around, couldn't have hit anything if I tried. Just chilling, listening to music, looked down and I was going 105. Sort of eased off the accelerator.

 

Because then you have to fight off all the other traffic.
On the interstate, at least, it's less stressful to go with the flow.

 

The type of car you are driving --- and what you are used to driving if the car in question isn't your primary one --- makes a HUGE difference in the feel. I realize they all have (or should have) speedometers, but if you are cruising and not watching the speedometer, it is very possible for 105 to feel like 75, especially with little or no traffic to judge by.

 

You're welcome.

 

I've been driving about 39 years. I think I have a lifetime total of about five points on my driving record.

And yeah, I drive 85 on the freeway just like everybody else. But not 109.

 

I pushed the limits of my car, an 06 Chevy Cobalt, one night driving home from work on a back road with no other cars around. Hit 103 before letting up.